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VOTD: ‘The Muppets’ Composer Bret McKenzie Sings ‘Life’s A Happy Song’ With Kermit The Frog By Angie Han/Nov. 21, 2011 5:00 am EST Here’s a bit of sweet to savor until The Muppets comes out. A new video has dropped of Kermit singing the opening tune from the film with its composer, Bret McKenzie. We’ve already been treated to glimpse of the actual sequence as it’s seen in the movie, in a clip that was posted earlier this month; while you won’t see more sweet moves by Jason Segel, Amy Adams, or Walter in this video, you will get to hear the rest of the song....

Watch Marvel’s ‘The Road To The Avengers’ By Germain Lussier/Aug. 31, 2011 2:00 pm EST Have all the posters, set photos, videos, interviews, rumors and teaser trailers not gotten you properly excited for The Avengers? No? Then this special feature that’ll be on the Thor Blu-ray come September 13 called The Road to The Avengers should do the trick. This isn’t the stuff Marvel showed at the D23 Expo so there’s no new footage, but it serves the same purpose: To get you psyched for May 4, 2012....

What Almost Happened To Jack Bauer In The Series Finale Of 24 By David Chen/Dec. 23, 2010 10:30 am EST Am I the only one who misses 24? I long for the days where Kiefer Sutherland’s raspy voice would yell at me from my TV screen on a weekly basis. I miss Jack Bauer’s unquestioning, “JUST GET IT DONE” mentality, ACLU be damned. I miss a show that tried, every week, to give us a thrill while trying to adhere to the brutal strictures of a real-time format....

‘Apollo 18’ Trailer #2 Keeps More Secrets By Russ Fischer/June 24, 2011 5:06 pm EST Looks like someone decided that the first Apollo 18 trailer, released months ago (before the film was delayed multiple times) gave away far too much backstory. The new theatrical trailer omits some of the history that opened the first trailer, such as the fact that Apollo 17 was the last ‘official’ mission, and also quite a bit of other detail....

‘Monsters’ Director Gareth Edwards’ Next Movie Is Being Pitched As “A Robot Star Wars”, First Details Revealed By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 5, 2011 7:00 am EST British director Gareth Edwards burst onto the scene with the low budget science fiction film Monsters, catching the eye of everyone in Hollywood. He landed the job to direct a new Godzilla movie for Legendary Pictures, which is being rewritten by Superman/Batman scribe David Goyer. A Monsters sequel is being developed, which Edwards won’t direct....

‘The Avengers’ German Trailer: New Footage, No Subtitles By Germain Lussier/Dec. 19, 2011 12:30 pm EST Bane’s voice this, football stadium that, Marvel has finally had enough of all this Dark Knight Rises talk. They’re released a brand new trailer for The Avengers including all new footage. That’s the good news. The bad news is the trailer is in German and is, more or less, the same as the first teaser trailer....

‘The Man Who Killed Don Quixote’ Screenwriter Says The Film Is “Ready To Ride” Again By Russ Fischer/Feb. 27, 2012 1:30 pm EST Is there any film project more tenacious than Terry Gilliam’s The Man Who Killed Don Quixote? The film just cannot be, er, killed, no matter what happens. Casting problems? It will overcome. Funding and script issues? This movie shrugs them off. Acts of God aren’t even enough....

Aaron Johnson And Andrew Garfield Meet For Jack The Giant Killer, Production Pushed Back To 2011 By Peter Sciretta/May 27, 2010 9:30 pm EST The film, which was originally scheduled to begin shooting this Summer in England, has now been been pushed back to February 2011, in an effort to give Singer more time to better figure out the visual effects. According to HeatVision, Singer will use a process that will supposedly allow him to see the giants in-camera as the actors play opposite them....

Barry Sonnenfeld Developing The Animated Film Pig Scrolls For Dreamworks By Russ Fischer/April 8, 2010 5:01 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Barry Sonnenfeld was low on the feature directorial radar for a while. In the last year, however, he’s frequently been in the trades with announcements of new projects, most of which are still in development. (Such as The How-To Guide For Saving the World and Swift , both with writer BenDavid Grabinski, and Men in Black 3....

Confirmed: Bill Condon To Direct The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn By David Chen/April 28, 2010 10:26 am EST Summit Entertainment has released a press release confirming what we’ve been hearing for awhile now: Bill Condon (Dreamgirls, Kinsey, Gods and Monsters) will be directing The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn. On the Twilight series, Condon stated, “I’m very excited to get the chance to bring the climax of this saga to life on-screen....

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Guillermo Del Toro’s ‘Pacific Rim’ Moved From May To July 2013 By Germain Lussier/March 22, 2012 2:00 pm EST As good as the summer of 2012 could potentially be for blockbuster movies, 2013 is looking even better. Films such as Iron Man 3, Star Trek 2, The Hangover Part 3, Fast & Furious 6 and Man of Steel just scratch the surface of films we know will have built in, mega-audiences and expectations....

Guillermo Del Toro’s ‘Pacific Rim’ Moved Up Two Months, ‘My Week With Marilyn’ Back Three Weeks, ‘Piranha 3DD’ To 2012 By Germain Lussier/Oct. 13, 2011 5:00 pm EST As for Pacific Rim, it was originally scheduled for release July 12, 2013 and was the only film scheduled for that date. However, in the past few weeks, Steven Spielberg’s Robopocalypse was inserted the week before as well as Tom Cruise’s Oblivion a few weeks later....

Jack Black And ‘Hot Tub Time Machine’ Director Steve Pink Developing ‘How To Survive A Robot Uprising’ By Adam Quigley/Oct. 22, 2010 6:00 pm EST Earlier today, it was announced that Steven Spielberg would be officially directing Robopocalypse, based on Daniel H. Wilson’s forthcoming novel about the fate of the human race following a robot uprising. But while humanity is being wiped out in that more serious-minded sci-fi project, Jack Black is going to be bringing a tongue-in-cheek edge to another adaptation of Wilson’s work, the semi-satiric How to Survive a Robot Uprising....

Lee Daniels Wants Oprah Winfrey For ‘The Butler;’ Neeson, Jackman, Kunis, Oyelowo, Cusack All Possible As Well By Russ Fischer/Feb. 16, 2012 12:00 pm EST In the months that followed the release and general success of Lee Daniels’ film Precious, the director considered two follow-ups. One was Selma, a civil-rights drama that would have recreated the relationship between Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and President Lyndon Johnson. The other was The Butler, about a man named Eugene Allen, who was a servant in the White House starting in 1954 and working through eight presidencies....

New Photos And Concept Art For Disney’s ‘The Ballad Of Nessie’ By Peter Sciretta/April 5, 2011 3:30 pm EST Walt Disney Animation has released new photos and concept art from their new hand-drawn short film The Ballad of Nessie, which will be attached to Winnie the Pooh beginning July 15th 2011. Hit the jump to see the new art and remember to click on the images to see them in high resolution....

Sam Rockwell Confirmed For Andrew Dominik’s ‘Cogan’s Trade’ With Brad Pitt By Russ Fischer/Jan. 5, 2011 8:48 am EST Interesingly, Deadline reports the news but still calls Casey Affleck’s participation a rumor. Also rumored are Josh Brolin, Javier Bardem, Bill Murray, Mark Ruffalo, and Zoe Saldana. Cogan’s Trade will reportedly shoot in New Orleans sometime around March. It’s definitely one of the most promising films that is casting right now.

See Designs For The ‘Hellraiser’ Remake That May Never Happen [Gallery] By Russ Fischer/Sept. 9, 2011 5:00 am EST It sounds as if the Dimension remake of Hellraiser has stalled out once again. Can’t pretend to be sad about that, really. The film has been an on-again, off-again thing for years as the Weinsteins try to figure out a way to bring Clive Barker’s unsettling tale of family tension, physical limits and sexual horror back to the screen....

Simon West In Talks To Direct Racing Romance ‘Dust And Glory’ By Russ Fischer/Nov. 29, 2011 3:00 pm EST Briefly: Simon West, the director of Con Air, The Expendables 2, and the Nic Cage film Stolen that we just mentioned this morning, is now in talks to make a new ‘racing romance’ called Dust and Glory.THR says the film is based on a novel by Evan Green, which is set during the Redex trials of the ’50s....